Poor education, unemployment and the promise of skills: The hegemony of the “skills mismatch” discourse

Fida Issa J. Adely, Ankushi Mitra, Menatalla Mohamed and Adam Shaham

International Journal of Educational Development, 2021, vol. 82, issue C

Abstract: Development discourse frames youth in the Arab world as lacking in the skills needed for employment and educational institutions as failing. The “skills mismatch” is offered as both the reason for unemployment, and evidence of the poor quality of education in the region. This paper undertakes a genealogy of the skills mismatch discourse, tracing how it became central to education development policy with a focus on Jordan.

Keywords: Skills mismatch; Discourse; Jordan; World Bank; WEF (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102381

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